EDENTON TEA LADIES
Patriotic women in Edenton, North Carolina, pledged to renounce British tea and were satirized in this British cartoon, which shows brazen women shedding their femininity. Neglected babies, urinating dogs, wanton sexuality, and mean-looking women were the consequences, according to the artist. The cartoon was humorous to the British because of the gender reversals it predicts and because of the insult it directs at American men. Library of Congress.